The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-16 00:00:00

CONCERT at the LONDON TAVERN, test night Mr. 0. H. Toulmin's Concert at the ete ee place attracted a very large company of city favhnnables, the large room being literally crowded. The Lord Mayor and ge.-...riffs, with their respective ladies, were the patrons and r,tronesses, and every pains had been taken to render the Concert worthy the attention it appeared to have excited. Tno singers were Misses Birch, Sheriff, Wcodham, Rain tee.*:b ; Messrs. Guibelei, Leffler, Wilson, &:.e. In the or chestra, which consisted of fifty perforators, led by Mr. 0. 11. Toulmin himself, were many eminent professional gentlemen, awl the condtictor of the evening was Sir George. Smart. \S we state that the programme contained six-and -twenty pl-.!crs of music, it Rill be obvious to the readers of The San etta . t. ..k r limits, a m pl e as t h ey are, will not admit ' of our no tiznir4,in the mo s t cursory manner, the whole of such a mass ot - music, amongst which, by the bye, there was a gool deal mere rubbish. We shall, therefore, mealy allude to the 'compositions I% hich seemed to stand pri.minently distinguihed from the rest, omitting all mention of such rarities in a con cert-reom as " My boy Tammy," " I'm o'er young to marry," and the lik e . Th e overture to " Anacreon, " which comnienced the Concert, did not go so well as we have been ae'customed tc, hear it at thewest-end of the town ; the same may be re narked of Weber's Overture to " Der Freischut-L," which Cof7.• elided the first part. Rossini's Overture to ‘• William Tell," at the commencement of the second kart, was a total failure. Miss Sheriff' s " With raptx , re dwelling, " from Palfe's " Maid of Artois, was sung w;,th great power of voice and great command in regard to execution of rapid and brilliant passages, but it was ahor,ether too theatrical, and de veil of that neatness and dcliv,,Cy we expect in the Concert room.; The worn-out duet Mayer from " 11 Fanatico," by Miss \Voodham and Mr. G'uibelei, was also a coarse perform ance. Mr. Guibelei's Y.umour consisted in vociferation, and Miss Woodham was v.eak and ineffective. In one respect it was characteristic; she appeared to be really a pupil prac tising the solfeggi o , Mr. Leffler, in Mad Tom, made an im mense bustle, but the effect was not commensurate with the apparent exertion. " Vadasi di qua" (the laughing trio) by Miss Shirreff, Wilson, end Guibelei, was encored—a distinc tion conferred upon it from the good humour of the auditory, and not from any particular merit in the execution. On the part of the two gentlemen it was outrageously over-acted, to the utter annoyance of those amongst the company who pos sessed good t as t e . I n t h e second part of the concert Miss Birch sang " Oh lore f for me thy powers," from Bellini's Somnamhula, in a very superior style ; it was beautifully chaste and expressive, and the difficulties were overcome without any semblance of exertion. Miss Rainforth's " Softly sighs," the celebrated scena from Der Frieschutz, was also charmingly sung. She sings with peculiar chasteness and delicacy, and with total absence of that vulgarity of style theatrical vocalists arc too apt to exhibit. Besides the vocal pieces, there were in troduced at this Concert a much larger proportion than usual of instrumental solos. In the first part Mr. Harper played a Fantasia upon the trumpet, in which he introduced Bishop's air " Should he upbraid ;" the whole was played with a splen did quality of tone, and in the most masterly style of execu tion : the triplets were played with, the neatness and finish of a stringed instrument, and the shakes were as perfect and brilliant as those of a flute or clarinet. In the second part Mr. T. Harper, jun., the eldest son of the gentleman already mentioned, played an introduction and palacca on the cornet a piston. It was a splendid performance, and gave us a far higher notion of the capabilities of this instrument than we had previously entertained. The tone was far more pure than that of any performer we had before heard, with an extent of compass clear and certain in its upper notes, and full and rich in its lower. The facility of execution displayed by the performer was actually astonishing. Mr. Harper was most enthusiastically applauded ; and, from the pleasure he gave, will no doubt be called upon to repeat this solo at other concerts. Mr. Blagrove also introduced a solo on the violin in the course of the evening:, the composition of Mayseder, played by him at the first Philharmonic concert ; but, from sonic cause or other, it did not go off quite so well as upon that occasion. There was also, in the course of the evening, an air with variations, very prettily executed by Master G. Case, on Wheatstone's Patent Concertina; and a Pianoforte piece of Herz, by Master B. 0. Toulmin. From the quantity of music performed, the Concert did not conclude till a very late hour ; and the audience must have had quite enough of the " harmony of sweet sounds," to enable them to abstain f - ,•om such " delights" for some time to come. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. CP:NCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC. The first of the Ancient Concerts took place on Wednesday night, at the Hanover-square Rooms. It is almost to be wished that these Concerts were at an end, or at least that they were entirely re-modelled, in such a way as to suit, in some measure, the taste and feelings of a modern auditory. All that is really good of Handel and the other old masters will hold its ground in the estimation of the musical world, without the aid of this antiquated institution to keep its memory alive. The occa sional introduction of the best of Handel's songs at concerts, and the constant repetition of his sublime chorusses at provin cial festivals, and at other meetings expressly adapted for the performance of such compositions, from the masses of vocalists brought together, aided by an orchestra of the largest extent, will be sufficient for this purpose, without the comparatively puny efforts of the Noble Directors of the " Concert of Ancient Music." They have already been compelled, by the " march" of events in music, as in other matters, to deviate from the original plan. Mozart has been played at the Ancient Concerts in former seasons ; and even last night, to eke out the bill of fare, we observed the names of Ilorsley and Lord Mornington in the Programme. The concert commenced with the Coronation Anthem, which has been much better done than it was on the present occasion, for the chorus singers as infected by the general feeling that seems to pervade these meetings, started off much too flat, and kept stoutly to their pitch nearly throughout the composition, in utter defiance of the accompanying orchestra. Mrs. Kny sett is quite at home in this class of music, and sang " In these Blest Scenes" very beautifully. We never heard Mrs. Bishop to greater advantage than in " Hark, 'tis the Linnet ;" she sang that charming air delightfully, and the cadence she introduced was of the most judicious and pleasing character ' • ono of its best f ea t ures was t h at i t was not too long, although it would seem that some of the first violin players were of a different opinion, for they started off without giving her time to finish it I Mrs. Edward Knight (formerly known to the to the musical public as Miss Povey) sang " From Mighty Kings." Although evincing some talent, the efforts of this lady were ineffective, and we think it would be wise of the Directors to " shelf" this song till the recol lection of Miss Stephens, and above all, of Mrs, Salmon, has utterly passed from our remembrance. The cho russes from Israel in Egypt, have too recently been heard in the most magnificent style, to acquire any additional popularity from the performance at the " Ancient." Handel's concertos might be consigned altogether to oblivion, with advantage both to the name of the composer, and to the gentlemen violinists who arc compelled to labour through them at these concerts. They will not do in the present day, the noble Directors of these concerts may depend upon our assurance. Mr. Lindley's accompaniment to " Softly Sweet," was as redolent of splen did tone and masterly execution as ever. In the second part, (which by the byo, in the programme of the ancient concerts, we observe, is still called " Act IL") Mrs. Knyvett was again "at home" in " Farewell ye limpid streams." The trio of Sarti, " Amplius lava me" was beautifully sung by Mrs. Kny vett, Mrs. Bishop, and Mr. Phillips. It was one of the gems of the evening. Did, however, the Noble and Right Reverend Directors, when they selected this piece, happen to remember that it was a " Popish" piece of business ? We suppose not, or we should have been, perhaps, deprived of the pleasure of hearing it. " Revenge ! Revenge 1 Timotheus cries," by Mr. Phillips, was given with his usual judgment and firm taste. The Hallelujah chorus concluded the evening's performances. The first concert was under the direction of the Duke of Cambridge, who was present on the occasion, with her Royal Highness the Duchess, and his lioval Highness Prince George of Cambridge. There were also present her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, ins Grace the Duke of Wellington, his Grace the Archbishop of York, Lord Burghersh, Lord Cawdor, Lord Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Sir Gore Ouseley, the Campbells, Gen. Upton, &c. The room was about two thirds filled. The concert was altogether a very heavy affair, and was not over till nearly twelve o'clock. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.—A plan for de cuing these has been suggested, which it is contended will remedy not a few of the objections to the present system of revising barristers ; and we think, moreover, would afford more than a fair chance of effecting all that is wished on the secre of impartiality. We are not sure that we are right in tati . ributing it to Mr. Warburton ; but we believe he recom mended that the kingdom should be divided into seven dis tricts, an. - 1 that seven revi s i ng j u d ges s h ou ld b e appo i nte d to take +.'ne districts in rotation, and, by adopting fixed rules of law for their decisions, give the registration of voters a uni formity of which, 'at this moment, it stands much in ticcd. A second part of the plan was, that—after a ge neral Election —these seven Judges should meet in Lon den, and sit there for the decision of controverted returns. The principal argument against this arrangement will be kunded upon expense, and it will be urged that it will not diminish the cost of trying a controverted return, as wit tiOnes must still be brought from a distance to the metropolis. This may be true, whenever a return is controverted ; but, on the other hand, the more perfect the registration system is rendered, the fewer must necessarily be the appeals from the tbeision of the returning officer. The ground of appeal in the great majority of cases now is, that he has admitted votes he ought to have excluded ; but once s itisfactorily settle the list, and make that list conclusive until a new registration and revision, and he will have no excuse for a wrong determina tion.—Morning Chronicle. ONE 111,INDRLD POUNDS REWARD.—A few days since a very astounding advertisement appeared in one of the daily papers, offering to any person affected with ulcerated cancer, bad breasts, bad legs, ulcerated sores of any kind, and even in every description of indolent skin diseases, as scrofula or King's Evil, &c. &c. ; and likewise in cases of put and rheumatism—the above sum was offered to be given to any person who shall use Holloway's Universal Family Ointment, ald who should not find it of greater benefit in the above cases than any other remedy extant. This is a bold offer, but it is certainly a wonderful ointment, and has effected most astonish ing cures—no family should be without it. We believe it may be had at Mr. Holloway's residence, No. 13, Broad. , street Buildings, City, and no doubt it is kept by most of the respectable p a tent medicine venders throughout the kingdom. A GOOD CR O P.—An Irishman in Burrillville planted last spring a peck of potatoes. This fall he dug his rturphys, and the whole crop measured just a peck. " And what did y ou get b y that ?" sa i d a b ys!an d er• " Arrah ?" said Pat, " and surely and didn't I get new ones for old ones ?" LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1838. The greatest of those monopolies which impoverish stint, and starve the people, was last night brought under the notice of the House of Commons. Mr. VILLIERS, after making an able speech, moved that the Corn Laws be referred to a Committee of the whole House, with a view to abolish them. He was seconded by the Member for Leeds, Sir WILLIAM MOLISWORTII, who, by that, did something to redeem his character with his constituency, for his late foolish motion against the Colonial Minister. Sir HENRY PARNELL, Mr. CLAY, Mr. DUNLOP, and Mr. RocHE (Cork), supported him ; but their exertions pre vailed nothing against the united phalanx of landowners, led on by the Marquis of CHANDOS and the Earl of DAR LINGTON, and Mr. VILLIERS' motion was lost by a ma jority of 205. The numbers were 95 for, 205 against ; 95 therefore, in a House of 305 Members, or less than one third of the whole represent the interests of the manufac turing and labouring classes, the bulk of the population in the Reformed House of Commons. For the inhabitants of our great towns this will be a mortifying disclosure. Lord JOHN RUSSELL avowed at the commencement of the session, that the Reform Act was based on the principle of securing a preponderance to the landed interest, and the division of last night demonstrates that Lord GREY, in time of need stood by " his order" most effectually. Ungrateful men ! They have never since ceased to oppose and revile him, while the manufacturing classes deluded, by a promise of great and the concession of a little improvement, long held him in honour, and supported him and his party in power and dignity. Not now, however, to suffer ourselves to be diverted from the question of the Corn-laws, we shall only observe that the preponderance of the landed interest in the Legislature which the division of last night has mani fested must in the end be fatal either to the Legislature or to the c o mmunity. The landed interest is no longer, either in wealth, numbers, or intelligence, the predominant interest in society. Its relative importance is every day decreasing, and to give it that predominance in the Legis lature which it has not in society—to place the law mak ing power in the hands of a minority—is to lay a certain foundation for discord between the Legislature and the community, which must in the long run be fatal to one or the other. As we have no notion that a few land-owners plunged up to the head and ears in debt can control the nation, we look on Earl GREY'S scheme for ensuring stability to the legis lature, by giving in it a predominancy to the landed interest, as certain to hasten its decay and final de struction. What, in fact, is the characteristic of that law of which the landowners last night resisted the amendment ? We answer in one word—wickedness. Its avowed object is to curtail the supply of our food, in order that those who make the law—the landowners—may get a higher price for the quantity grown on their estates. The Dutch, as Mr. VILLIERS last night reminded the House of Commons, stand branded before all Europe as selfish, diabolical de stroyers of the bounties of nature, worthy of execration in all times, because they burnt a few spices to keep up the price —poor condiments which merely enhance the flavour of food, without sustaining life : but how trifling in malignity is the conduct of the Dutch compared to that of our landowners in Parliament, who, by a deliberate act, avowedly limit to a degree no man can tell, the supply of food to their own countrymen, inflict en hundred and thou sands daily the pangs of hunger, and condemn many more to an untimely death. We know that it is said that such is not, in fact, the result ; that tlse limita tion of the supply encourages native industry, and ensures in the long run a greater and more regular abundance of food to the people. Such, indeed, is the paltry pretext by which those who starve the people to enrich themselves seek to delude them, and to stifle the misgivings of their own consciences ; but we have 'sow marked the course of poli tical events, and the results of legislation too long, to place the least confidence in the assertions of those who tell us to hope for good ont of their evil deeds. The avowed in tention is for the law-makers to plunder the eaters of bread, by means of the law ; and no reasoning, no long array of statistical facts, no pretended difference of a few pence or a few shillings in the price of a quarter of wheat here and at Hamburg, put forth by those to whose assertions the events of every day give the lie, and whose policy is conti nually found to be one great error, will ever convince the public that to thus have their food stinted can he ultimately beneficial. Landowners must, in fact, establish a re putation for great wisdom by a long course of suc cessful policy, such as they have never yet per formed, before they have the smallest chance of per suading us that to be starved at present by law, in order to enhance their rents, will by-and-bye b© for our advantage. If, then, the characteristic of the law be wickedness, diabolical, unmitigated wickedness, to give in the Legislature a predominance to those who persist in per petrating this wickedness, must, by the laws of God and the constitution of the human mind, hasten its destruction. But we are prepared to show that the folly and igno rance of the landowners in enacting, and persisting in maintaining the Corn-laws, are equal to their wickedness. Sir HENRY PARNELL observed that the limited supply of corn we are allowed to get—and no man can tell how much more we should get if there were no Corn-laws—costs the country 12,500,0004 more than it would cost if there were no such laws. That sum, he added, does not all go into the pockets of the landowners, but a great part of it is altogether lost. What, now, if it should turn out that the landowners themselves are the greatest losers by the Corn-laws, and that they could obtain the greater part of this 12,000,0004 or, perhaps, even more if there were no Corn-laws ? We see a prodigious anxiety on the part of the landowners or planters in all the West India islands, to have an increased supply of labourers, because they know, and every man knows, that just in proportion as the labourers are multiplied in any given spot of ground, the rent of the landowner is increased. Nothing in fact is better i known—although the rent of the landowners has not kept pace with the profits of the merchant and manufacturer— that the rent of the land-owner has increased in proportion as the population has multiplied. But for the population to increase food is essential, and whatever curtails the supply of food, lessens the population, and diminishes the amount of rent. We hold this proposition and the con sequent ruinous influence of the Corn laws on the rent of the land-owners to be as demonstrable as any proposition in Euclid. Nor is it of the least importance, whence the supply of food is drawn ; for the accommodation required for those who dwell in comfort is so considerable that an in crease of them in any shape, though they should all eat bread baked abroad, will in that spot enhance the rent of land. Liverpool is in a great measure fed by Ireland, but the land in and about Liverpool has been much enhanced in value. The increase of population, which the landowners prevent by the Corn Laws is the single source of the increase of rent; and every qua r t er o f corn, consequently, which the stupid landowners will not allow to be consumed in England, because grown in Germany, takes some thing out of their pocket. We are thoroughly convinced that no classes are so grie vous l y i n j ured by the Corn-laws as those who own and those wh o cu l t i vate the soil ;'but we have at present neither time nor space further to advert to the subject. We shall conclude by asking if the palpable 1 folly of the jolter-headed landowners—cutting their own throats, like drowninsr, pigs —can recommend their wicked ness, by which they starve others, to our love and admira tion ? The avowed intention of preventing any class or condition of men from obtaining food wherever they can honestly obtain it, for the purpose of enriching those who prerent them, we denounce as diabolical ; but we have the consolation of knowing that the course of nature and of society is so ordered, that this diabolical purpose cannot be attained, and that in proportion as the land owners impede the growth of the population they impo verish themselves. We direct attention with much pleasure to the report of the meeting held yesterday at Manchester, of the Man chester and Leeds Railway Company. It will be seen that one-half of the line is already contracted for, that there is a large balance in hand, that the works on the North Midland, on the York and North Midl and on the Hull and Selby railways are in active operation, and all these railways are likely to be opened about the same time, thus connecting all the principal towns in the North of England. If any proof were want ing of the confidence which people in the vicinity place in the success of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, it will he found in the fact that two Shareholders had willingly paid up in advance '20,000/. The advantages of Railways over Canals was placed in a striking light before the people by the late severe weather, when for three months the Canals have been stopped up altogether ; yet the communication by the Railroads between Manchester and Liverpool and Birminghan has been uninterrupted. When these arrangements are all c ompleted—Hull and Liverpool, the North Sea and the Western Ocean, will be but a few hours apart. We are glad to see by the following resolutions agreed to at a numerous public meeting held at Kilkenny, on Monday last, that the electors of that city have given a dis tinct contradiction to the charges of Col.TitomrsoN against them and Mr. EwAR•r. We shall endeavour to-morrow to in sert an abridged account of the proceedings, from which it will be evident, that so far from Mr. O'CONNELL having bargained away the representation of Kilkenny, to which Mr. EwART was a party, he recommended Mr. FOWELL BUXTON to the electors, who would not think of him. Their choice of Mr. HuME, and their wish to .have Mr. EWART, were expressly dictated by the knowledge that those gentlemen had been rejected by English constitucn• cies on account of the support they had given to Ireland, and were extremely honourable to all parties. Would to GOD that the constituencies of England displayed half as much discrimination and public spirit : At a very numerous meeting of the Citizens' Club of Kil kenny, convened by special Requisition, and held at their Rooms, High-street, on Monday the 12th instant, Mr. JAMES WALSUE, in the Chair. The following Resolutions were, on a Ballot, unanimously agreed to:— Proposed by Mr. Joseph Hackett, and seconded by Mr. James Quin— Resolved—That we have read in the public papers, with mingled feelings of surprise and indignation, a letter signed "T. Perronet Thompson," dated March 3, 1838, and ad dressed to the electors of Marylebone, wherein the writer im plies corruption against the electors of Kilkenny, and that we deem it our duty, as members of this club and electors of this City, to give to that prooflesa and calumnious imputation the most direct contradiction. Proposed by Mr. Henry Potter, and seconded by Mr. K. T. Buggy-- Resolved—That the nomination of Mr. Ewart, which origi nated in the rooms of this club, arose solely from the estimate in which the members held his political services, talents, and public honesty ; that the nomination was purely incidental, not having been suggested by Mr. O'Connell, or any other per son, beyond the limits of this club; and that Mr. Ewart would have been returned for Kilkenny, if it had not occurred that the loss of Middlesex to Mr. Hume brought us to consider that he (Mr. Hume) having prior claims, ought to be, without loss of time, secured to the House of Commons. Proposed by Dr. Cana, and seconded by Mr. T. Hart, jun.— Resolved—That what Colonel Thompson terms •' The Irish military chest," and " The treaty of Kilkenny," have no existence save in his ( Colonel Thompson's) imagination, or in the imagination of some one who has played upon his credulity, and that we call upon Colonel Thompson to prove as true, or retract as false, his most unwarrantable at tack. Proposed by Mr. Edward_Kelly, and seconded by Mr. John Kavanagh— Resolved—That the thanks of this Club are due to Mr. Evvart for the very proper reply which he has given to Colonel Thompson, as well as for the handsome manner in which he expresses himself as regards the electors of Kilkenny. Proposed by Mr. John Potter, and seconded by Mr. John Buggy— Resolyed—That our Secretary do forward a copy of these Resolutions to Colonel Thompson. Proposed by Mr. John Flynn, and seconded by Mr. B. A. Due Arrived. Due. 1 1 Franc:, 0 0 1 Gt... r. Jersey 0 0 iluenosAyreg.. 0 0 Hamburg 0 Cartilagena 1 Holland 1 Dublin... 11 1 Jamaica ..... 0 I flaiolers Arrived. ' Due. tt Liston 0 512!ta ....... 0 0 Alex:ea l, Oster.l.. ...... Sweden 1 Waterfnrd 0 HIGH WATER AT LON nOl , l ?:RIDGE TO- MORROW. lforuinq i9 minutes 2llet 5 I Evening 52 minutes after 5 THE SLAVE TRADE. 4 PULL ACCOUNT of the TWO DAYS' MEETING at EXETER HALL, with the SPEECHES of Lord BROUGHAM and Mr. O'CONNELL, at length, will appear in the SUNDAY TIMES, March 18th. Printed and Published by J. K. Chapman, 74, Fleet-street. Just published at 35., and in Folio at 7s. 6d. Part IV of ..,„PAUNDERS' POLITICAL REFORMERS, containing Portraits and Memoirs of GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P. Right Hon. C. P. THO3ISON, M.P. (From Paintings by George Hayter, Esq.) And THOMAS WYSE, Esq., M.P. Parts Ito 111 may be had of all Booksellers ; also thick Folio Proof Impressions of the Portraits at ss. each. Now ready, No. 1., at 6d., Part I. at 25., with PORTRAIT OF PAPINEAU, THE CIVIL WAR IN THE CANADAS, With a general and a highly interesting Account of the Pro vinces and their Inhabitants ; comprising :- 1- Historical Sketch of the Progress of Settlement. 2. Re sources and Trade of the Country. 3. Description of the Country and Climate. 4. Social Condition of the People, Manners, Habits, Customs, Amusements, Songs, &c. 5. Religion, Educa tion, the Press, &c. 6. Population. 7. Information for Emi grants. 8. Memoirs of the Canadian Leaders, &c. with VIEWS, MAPS, PLANS, AND PORTRAITS. London : J. Saunders, Jun. 7, Dyer's Buildings, Holborn Bars. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1838 Scott— Resolved—That these Resolutions be published in the Kil kenny Journal and London Sun newspapers. JAMES WALSIIE, Chairman. K. T. BUGGY, Hon. Secretary. It was moved by Mr. P. Keeffe, seconded by Mr. John Stephens, and resolved, that Mr. Walshe do leave the Chair, and Mr. Kelly he called thereto, after which thanks were voted to the former Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. In the Paris Journals of Wednesday we find rumours 'on all sides of a change in the Cabinet. The Doctri naires seem resolved to unite with any party rather than forego revenging the neglect they have experienced upon the Ministry. But in the stormy debate of Tuesday and Wednesday on the secret service fund they adopted a novel course to effect that object. Instead of attacking the Members of the Cabinet individually or collectively, they aimed their blows directly at the KING, who, strange as it may appear, found no defender in the Chamber. Even M. Gutzoz had the hardihood.to insinuate that the KING'S in. dividual opinions regulated the whole of the Ministerial policy. As the question at issue was not disposed of before the mails left Paris on Wednesday, we have no means of correctly, estimating the effect of these attacks upon th e the numerical strength of the usual Ministerial majority, According to the current rumours in Paris, in the event of a change in the Cabinet, a coalition Ministry would be formed in which MM. TIHEAS and GUIZOT would unite with Count MOLE and M. DUCHATEL in forming a strong Government. Such a union is utterly i m practicable. M. GutzoT is pledged to preserve the present policy of the Government in Spain, and M. THIERS has declared that he wants but an opportunity 'to overturn it. Upon this important question M. TRIERS is directly at issue with GUIZOT and the KING. GUIZOT is not only personally objectionable to the KING, but he is unpopular as the chief of a sect of politicians universally detested in France. TRIERS is disliked by no party, and as his ready eloquence, tact, and business habits might be turned to excellent ac count, his appointment to office would soon be arranged were his Spanish policy not so insuperable a stumbling block. There is no other news of any interest in these Journnls. Advi^es from Bavaria state that a negotiation is pending for the marriage of the CROWN PRINCE with a daughter of the King of the FRENCH. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MARCO 14. Five per 10c.5e711 ' 16f. Three per Cents., 80f. i9f. 95c. Bank Actions, 2650 f. ttente de Naples, !,11. 60c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 f. Spanish Actives, ‘20%%. Spanish Differes, 7. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10414. Belgian Bank, 1,505 f. 1,510 f. 1,500 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. Haytian Loan. 400 f. Excnsnott ON LoNtios. One month, paper, 25f. 55c.; money, 25f. 52!4c Three months, paper, 25f. 40c.; money, 25f. 40c. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents. 108 f. Three per Cents., SOf. Bank Actions, 2,650 f. Romans, 102. Belgian Loan, 104%. Belgian Bank, 1,504. Portuguese Three per Cents., 19%. Haytlan Loan, 400 f. Spanish Actives, ‘20%. Madrid Journals of the 4th and sth inst., have just reached us. They bring no news of any interest ; but a telegraphic despatch received in Paris on Wednesday from the Spanish capital announces that General PitaniNAs routed the Carlist forces under TOLLADA on the '2 7th ult. The engagement took place at Castril. The rebels lost 1,000 men and two pieces of artillery. As a set-off the Rebel chief BA STU° GARCIA took the fort of Puerto Llano. Don CauLos was on the 7th inst. at Estella. Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have been received. It was rumoured in Vienna, on the 3rd inst. that Prince FERDINAND, of Saxe C o b urg. b rot h er t o King LEOPOLD, and father of the Kin g o f P ortuga l , wou ld be appointed in the room of Prince Anouxus, of Schwarzenburg, Ambassador Extraordinary at the Coro nation of her Majesty Queen VICTORIA. Prince FERDI NAND offered, if Austria conferred the honour upon him, to bear himself the whole expense of the mission. In answer to the Episcopal Protest of the Bishops of URMSTER and PADEairoais, against the c e l e b ra ti on of mixed marriages in their respective dioceses after the pub lication of the decision of the Sacred College, in the case of the Archbishop of COLOGNE, the King of PRUSSIA has issued the following Cabinet order : It is not without surprise that his Majesty has learnt this declaration of those men who have always been represented to him as very sensible and well-disposed f unct i onar i es. It would prove a most deplorable administration of a State, if the executor of the laws of that State could he suspended by the declarations of a foreign Sovereign, which h a d not eve , b een officially communicated. The instructions given according to the Convention must therefore remain in full f orce . B u t here all seems to turn on a misunderstandi ng , which his Majesty wishes to clear up for the satisfaction of the Catholic Prelates. His Majesty has never understood the convention in any other sense, than that no violence should be done to the consciences of any persons whatever. If, there fore, the Catholic party is not to be induced to give that de claration respecting the education of the children, he (or she) cannot certainly, according to the Papal brief, be subject to any ecclesiastical censures; but then the Catholic priest shall not be compelled to perform the ceremony according to the Catholic rites, but it is left to tho party that should feel him self prejudiced to complain to the Bishop, who is to de cide definitively in the case, according to which decision the priest, as well as the person to be married, must conform. It is only in this manner that, without giving ground to any one to complain, the instructions issued to establish regular order can be applied, and his Majesty will suppose that it is owing to a misunderstanding if they have hitherto in some cases been interpreted differently. In this manner it should seem that every difficulty is removed, and nothing but inevi table ill-will can look on this as a violence done to conscience. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 15.—Wind E.N.E., a light breeze.—CanlC 4ewn from the River, and proceeded with the outward-bound, as before, On their respective voyages, the Susannah, Aitken, for Trinidad ; Amelia Thomson, Dawson, for Sydney ; Guinea Man, Brewer, for Cape Coast Castle ; Regulus, Crews, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; Jefferson, Rains, for New York ; and Jacob Perkins, Schoof, for Boston. Arrived and proceeded for the River the Eliza, Downie, from Guernsey, The Circassian, Kirton, from Lima, remains. Pc:ur:4)=llr, MARCH 15.—Wind N.N. W. to N N,E. , fine.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Athol„ from Plymouth. S:iile4 the John Fleming, Rose, for Madras and Bengal ; and her Majesty's shirt Lilly, fora cruize. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived her Majisty's ship Columbine, from Ascension. Sailed the Louisa, Chalker, for London. FALMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind W.S.W., flesh breezes and thick weather —Arrived the Pigeon packet, Lieut. Luce, from St. Thomas, lith Feb. ; and Sportsman, Hutchinson, from Aux Cayes, Feb. 3. Arrived off port, the Sarah, Sadler, from Mauritius. Sailed the Emma Matilda, Jansen, for Hamburg; and Anne Johanna, Brevcr, for Bremen. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 15 —Wind N.N.W., light.—Arrived the La vinia, Jones, from Sierra Leone; General Wolfe, Harrison, from Rio Grande; Itiugmahon Castle, Stanton, from Trinidad, Bth Feb.; British Queen, from St John's, New Brunswiek ; Louisa, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Robert Morris, from New Orleans; Montpellier, Tyson, from New Orleans ; St. Lawrence, from New York; Evergreen, Mor. gan, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; and Johanna, Hamilton, from Pernambuco—sailed Jan. RI . The Gazelle, for Hamburg, and Bri tannia, for Trieste, were to sail in a few days.. RAMSCATE, MARCH 15.—Arrived off port, Minx, from St. Michaels. Dumax, MARCH 14 —Arrived the Emerald Isle, Buck, from London ; Ballinasloe, (Steamer) from London, CORK, MARCH 13.—Arrived the T. S. Reeves, Bailey, from London. Arrived off port, the Montrose, Titehelt, from Laguera. NEWHAVEN, MARCH 15.—The Ocean, Nutting from Gambia to Lon don, ran on shore this morning, near this port, during a thick fog, but was assisted off, and proceeded, without much apparent damage, after discharging great part of her cargo, and throwing some overboard. The Rude Packet, Drew, sailed from Swansea, 14th ult., for Bode, and has not since been heard of. The Margaret, Gammon, from Sierra Leon, put into Antigua, leaky. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS D. 4 1 7), TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received New Brunswick papers to the 17th February, from which we copy the following : I.AGISLATURE.—On Tuesday the House resolved to grant a sum of 3901. for the relief of the wives and children of the soldiers who have gone to Canada, in addition to the government allowance.—Wednesday a Bill was passed prohibiting the issue of notes under five shillings. It is understood the American Government will not accept the pro position to abide by the award of the King of the Netherlands, and as her Majesty's subjects on the disputed territory have been kept in a state of insecurity for some time, we presume they will now be re lieved by the determined exercise of British rule over a portion of the territory, which undoubtedly belongs to the British Crown, and which it has held in possession since the conquest of the country. We have received a Mauritius Price Current to the 12th Decem ber. Exchange on London.—Mauritius Government Bills, 30 days' sight, I per cent. premium; Mauritius Bank Bills, nothing done; Private Bills, 2 to 4 per cent., discount ; on France, from 2 to 4 per cent., discount. By Advices from Dominica we learn that the Assembly had passed an Act imposing a duty of 21 per cent. on all merchandise imported into the Island. It was expected that her Majesty's Government would not assent to the measure, as a similar law which had been adopted in Jamaica had been negatived by the Queen in Council. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp of yes terday's date, bringing the Dutch prices as follows :—Two.and-a-Half per Cents., 53 3.16 ; Five per Cents., 1021 ; Spanish, 18 13-16. The Dutch Journals of the 11th inst., state from advises from Java of the '26th November, that the Chief Benjolois, who defended the fortress with so much valour, surrendered at discretion to the Governor of the Pays-Bas. Owing to the accounts received yesterday from Canada, of the re.ap. pearance of a body of a few hundred of the rebels in Canada, the British Funds receded about per cent., and closed at 92i 93 for the Account; for Money, 92.1 The prevailing opinion in the City, and among the well informed in Canadian affairs is, that the rebels are so crippled that they cannot do any more mischief, and must in a very short time submit to the British Government, Consols opened this morning at the above prices. Exchequer Bills 64 prem. ; India Bonds, 64 pi em. ; Bank Stock, 2094 for the Account; India Stock, 265. Spanish Active, 21 11 with Coupons; Portuguese, 311 ; Three per Cents., 2011 Brazilian, 77} to ; Colombian, 29 ; Mexican, 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceats. , 52 4 1. ALF-PAST TWELVE. The Consol Market has rather improved, since our article of Twelve o'clock has been written, and may be quoted at present at 92 to A for the Account. The United States American packet ship of the 24th ult,, may be ex pected at Liverpool to-morrow. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock . — India Stock • 3 per Cent, Red. - Ditto Bonds ........ ......... . 64 66 .m). 3 per Cant. Cons. 92%N 316 South Sea Stork — 3% per Cent ...... ........ ......... Old Annnities Ditto Red — New Ditto New 3% per Cent lOO% Me 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent.. — Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 63 65 62 tun Bank LongAnnultiestoexpire Ditto 500.... .63 65 62 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 Oct. 10, 1459 Jan. 5, 1860 l5 Ditto Advertised — Pm. Jan. 5, 1880 ....... ..... .. Bank Stock for Account... 208% 9% April 5, 1880 - India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, ls'7l Consols for Acconnt 92A 3!e PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian nond3 'Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds i:itto Account . Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 77 (1% Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillia, Bonds ..... ..... Ditto Account Ditto Account .• Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent......... 21% 20X Prussian Bonds Calumbiair Bonds Ditto Account C3lunibian Bonds, 18'24 Ditto Account . 2() fl; , 9 Dtnish Bonds ....... Ditto Account Greek Ron.ta, ...... ...... Ditto Bonds, 18:25 Ditto Account . ........... Mexican Bomb, 5 per cent — Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan... ............ —I ODE TO LORD BROUGHAM. " Mr. Sturize observed that the Chairman would bear him out in saying that this was the first time that slavery was legalized by law. " An individual near the speaker here intimated to him that he should have said, Noble Chairman. " Lord Brougham—No, I wish you could say the contrary. 1 had much rather be in the House of Commons."— rid , Morning Chronicle of this Day. What? Wish to give up a Peer's renown, And lay thy title and coronet down ? To cut for ever the House of Lords And herd with less aristocratic hordes? To leave poor Lyndhurst in the lurch, And next O'Connell to take thy perch ? To " bolt" from Glenelg, and bid adieu To Ripon and weeping Melbourne too ? No more to hear Phillpott speak, or quiz That matchless brazen front of his ? (A front that must sure have b'een dipped in the Shannon, For out of its brass you might cast a cannon) But consort instead with plebeian Hume In vulgar St. Stephens ?—Oh fie, Lord Brougham Knowest thou not that to be a Peer, Is to shorten one's natural length of car; Though dull, to become on the instant bright, Though stupid, sage by unquestioned right, With power to transmit to future ages A privileged progeny of sages ? Oh, mightier far than the conqueror's sword, Is the spell that lies in the words " My Lord :" It can check the rising tide of mind, And the giant Reform in fetters bind; Decree a manacled nation's doom, And darken it o'er with Cimmerian gloom : Say, can'at thou then, for one short hour, Resign, Lord Brougham, this magic power, Which sage opinion gives to the Great, Who sport a coronet on their pate P Yes, well we know thou canst, for thine Is Nobility, by right divine; A rank—a patent—a lofty station — Not of Kings', but of Heaven's own creation ; 'Tis thine to cheer the struggling brave, And shout " be free !" to the toil.wor■ slave; The wrongs of ages to redress, And speed, whero'cr man's footsteps press, The March of Hutnan Happiness. DREADFUL STEAM BOAT EXPLO- SION THIS DAY-TWO LIVES LOST. This morning, at half-past ten o'clock, a serious calamity occurred on the river in Erith Reach, by the explosion of a steam boiler on board the new Hull steam ship, the Victoria, which came up for the first time yesterday morning. This morning she left Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, with 40 lathes and gentlemen on board, consisting of the Directors, Agents, and their ladies, and a few visitors, who were invited on a pleasure excursion to the /Core and back for the purpose of ascertaining the power of the Engines, the rate of speed, and to commemorate the building of the new strain-ship. The Victoria proceeded in safety as far as Erith, and the utmost hilarity and good feeling prevailed, when, in a moment their enjoyment was damped by an explosion of one of the boilers, and the vessel was imme diately filled with steam, and the people on deck were concealed from each other by the vapour. There were nine men in the engine-room, five of whom were most dreadfully scalded, and one man, an extra maker on board was killed. The Vesper, Gravesend steamer, Capt. Busby, was coming up when the boiler of the Victoria burst, and finding that something serious had happened bore down towards the Victoria, and took out the engineer and three men, who were scalded in a frightful manner, and conveyed them to the Dreadnought Hospital.ship off Greenwich, where they were taken on board and received immediate attention. One man, a stoker soon afterwards expired. The others, although severely injured, are expected to recover. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) YOUGHAL. At the meeting of the Committee this morning, the scrutiny was resumed, and the parties being now once more equal on the poll, the petitioner's Counsel proceeded with their objections to the rote of Kerle Sidley (a freeman) ou the ground of nonresidence. For the petitioner several circumstances were stated to shew that the voter had removed from Youghal, and settled permanently in Mallow. For the sitting Member, on the other hand, it was set up that he passed only a part of the year at Mallow, but resided principally in Youghal. The Committee retained the rote. READING. The Committee met at eleven o'clock, and again proceeded with tho scrutiny. Nothing of interest had taken place up to the time of our paper going to press. CARLOW COUNTY. The Committee has been occupied the whole day in hearing argu. ments on the question of opening the registry. DUBLIN (CITY.) The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. Lord SnYmoun in the Chair. Mr. KBATINGE said that it had been the intention of Counsel for peti. tioners to have commenced their case to.day by going into the votes ob. jected to, on the ground of the voters being in arrear for the paving and lighting taxes. He had, however, now to inform the Committee that they were not prepared to go en now with that class of objections, and for this reason. In order to establish their objections to those votes, it was necessary to produce before the Committee certain documents, which were in the offices of the Paving Board, and, accordingly, so far back as the Bth of the present month, the Speaker's warrant was served on the officers of the Paving Board to produce these documents before the Committee, but although the officers were in town, he understood the documents had not yet arrived. Whether this omission was the result of design or not he would not take upon himself to say; he was prepared, however, to satisfy the Committee that every exertion had been made on the part of the petitioners to produce these documents, and if necessary he would call in the officers and examine them as to the facts. If, however, the Committee were satisfied to take them on his state.. ment, he would proceed without further delay to another part of the case. The CIIAIRMAN asked if there were any objections to this course of proceeding on the other side. Mr. llocaucx replied in the negative. Mr. KRATINGE then said, he would proceed at once to the class of obj ections, No. 1, for insufficiency in the householders affidavits, or in other words, where persons claiming to vote had not been legally and duly registered, and had not verified the registry according to law. The Act required the voter to swear that " the premises were and are of the clear yearly value of 101." Now, the class of cases which he proposed to go on with, was that of persons whose affidavits were defective in this respect. He would proceed first with the case of Michael Brougham, which stood second on the list, and 79n0 on the registry. The Learned Gentleman first proposed to put in the affidavit of registry. Mr. EvaNs—Was the voter objected to at the time of registry? Mr. KBATINGE—I am not aware whether he was or not. An HoN. Mem:rut—Was the affidavit made subsequent to the re gistry ? Mr. KEATING—Yes ; but from the substantial defect in the affidavit itself in this instance, we contend that it is no affidavit at all. An Hox. MEMBER said, that before they entertained the question as to whether the affidavit was defective or not, this preliminary question ought to be maturely considered, whether, if they admitted the objection to the affidavit, it would not amount to an opening of the registry. This gave rise to a long discussion as to whether such would be the effect of admitting the affidavit or not. The intricacies of the forms of the Irish registry were minutely gone into and discussed ; and at length the Chairman ordered the room to be cleared, and on the read mission of strangers, stated that the Committee had decided that Counsel for petitions should proceed with his case. Mr. Archer, one of the town-clerks of Dublin, was then called, and produced the affidavit of Michael Brougham, 99, Townshend-street, and also the poll books. The affidavit was then read. The objection was the omission of the word " yearly" in the statement of the value. It appeared on the face of the poll books, that an objection was taken to the voter at the time. Mr. AUSTIN-Mr. Archer, have you the copy of the notice of ob. jection ? Witness—No it has not yet arrived. Mr. AUSTIN—That is unfortunate, for the Committee must be aware that the Assessor in Ireland always writes on the objection the grounds of his decision. Witness—The objection that was raised to the vote at the time was overruled by the assessor. The agents on both sides had access to these documents in my presence. To Mr. AUSTIN—I do not preserve the notices of application to register. This closed the evidence against the vote. To save the time of the Committee it was agreed between Counsel that Mr. Keatinge should first address himself to the question, as to whether the defect in the af.. fidavit was substantial or not. Mr. KEATINGE then proceeded to argue that question. The form of the affidavit was set out in the Schedule annexed to the Irish Reform Act, and expressly required that the words " bona fide of the clear yearly value" should be introduced. He then went into a recital of the different Registration Acts, beginning with Henry VI., to show that a principle tantamount to this prevailed through all. It was quite true the Irish Reform Act did not permit the affidavit to be objected to in form, from which it was clear that it did mean to admit of objections in substance, and his was a substantial objection. Mr. AUSTIN said if his Learned Friend had, as was the usual prac tice, put forward his best class of cases, the attention of the Committee would not be so long engaged with the case as had been anticipated. By the 20th section of the Irish Reform Act, the Legislature explicitly declared that no objection should or could be taken to the form of the affidavit, the preparation of which was thrown upon the revising Barrister. The Committee interrupted the Learned Gentleman, and said they would not trouble him further, as they were unanimously of opinion that the objection to the vote of Michael Brougham could not be sustained. Mr. AUSTIN said such was the decision he had expected. It disposed of 208 objections i❑ class No. 1. There were 408 in class No. 2, which must share the same fate. Mr. KELTINGE said, the 2d class of objections fell within the deci sio❑ of the Committee, and they gave them up. They had now got rid of (iGG objections which was getting on pretty well ; he, therefore, thought he had a right to apply for the favour of an ad journment at that early hour. Mr. AUSTIN had no objection, provided it could be positively arranged with what part of the case they would go on tomorrow. . .. . After some private arrangement it was agreed that both parties should come to-morrow prepared to argue the important question of the Freemen. The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock tomorrow. A specimen of an antediluvian monster of the Icthyosaurus tribe has this week been discovered in a quarry at Twerton, the property of C. Wilkins, Esq. It is a petrified skeleton crnbe.dded in the bas, of which the huge jaws, teeth vertebrae, and ribs are perfect.—Bath Journal. Rusaisn Bends, _1.822 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic ............ Spanish Bonds - Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, I dt 4,1 N %% Ditto Account 21 % 1 ii French, 5 per cent..." —t. 4 per ccnt. t. —c. 3 per cant. —c. Exchange —E —c. Dutch, 2% per cent 52%14 Ditto Account 52%% Ditto, per cent IO 2N M's Ditto Account 102% DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Railway 5 5'4% •• Great Western Railway Company ......... Hull and Selby Railway Company lO 8 3 ,4 Brighton Railway Company London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 181 Ditto ' Shares 5 32 I ondon and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 18 London and Southampton Railway Company 5O 46 London and Croydon Railway Company . !..'o 18% 19 London Grand Junction Railway Manchester and Leeds Railway Company Aianchester and Birmingham Railway 7 11 Northern and Eastern Railway Company North Midland Railway Company :35 4114 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF SHARES THI: By the Barbadoes papers received to-day, it appears that the Governor had forwarded a message to the House of Assembly, containing a repre sentation of the wish of Government to ascertain whether the emancipa tion of proedial and non-prareclial apprentices would be concurred in by the Assembly. The Governor expresses himself an advocate for the plan, but the House of Assembly appears not to assent, without indeed further compensation were given for the two years' labour which the masters have to obtain under the Emancipation Law. Pernambuco letters have been received this morning of 291 h Jan., but they do not contain any news of importance—the news from Bahia only reaching to the 2nd of January, which is not so late as the previous information received from Bahia. Consols, which were heavy in the early part of the morning at 92 93 for the Account, have since improved to 93 too Money; Exchequer Bills receded to 62 ; India Bonds, 64 66. Commercial affairs in general are dull, and Money not so plentiful as it has been for discounts. Spanish Active improved since the morning, 213 without Coupons; Portuguese 31, lower ; Three per Cents. ; Brazilian lower, 76 3 ,4 ; Mexican, 281 ; Columbian 28i ; Dutch Two.and.a-Half per Cents., 52 % THREE 0' CL 0 CE. Consols for the Account, 92 TA 93. COAL MARK El.—March 14 Per Ton: Bensham Bute's Tanficl Moor 22 0 Holywell Russell's High Main 2O 6 ran field Moor 2:3 6 Willington OO 9 Walls End Chirton 2O 6 Walls End Clark and Co 2l 0 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Lanchester Jeer 'Fon. s. Walls End Hetton 21:3 0 Walls End Lambton 2B 0 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Hartlepool 2B 0 Walls End Thoruley 25 0 Union Main Walls End Barrington Walls End Deanery 22 3 Walls End Gordon 23 0 Walls End South Durham 24 Walls End Meaomsley 2O :i Walls End Perkinß. 2l 0 Walls End Walker 2i 0 Walls End Victoria Tees 23 0 Walls End Tees '2s 6 WallssEnd West Hetton Walls End Braddyll'a Hetton 28 0 Walls End Hruw ell Ships arrived since HAMBURG GR Wheat. Marks 255 to 313 Mecklenburg 2ro to 318 Graig Ola Handpicked • Standrig... last market day, IS. • MARKETS. UN. Oats, Upland to - - Mecklenburg PO to 126 Magdeburg 270 to 315 Eider Eider to - Holstein 108 to 123 Anhalt, white..., 2(11 to 324 -- Petcrsburgh & ltiga to red Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg 2Ol to 216 Pease, Upland, ye110w.....174 to 201 -- Holstein Archangel — to Tares 138 to :59 Barley, Mecklenburgh... 160 to VS Rapeseed 304 to 420 Magdeburgh .... 1(18 to 171 Ditto Cakes 34 to 37 Lower Elbe The Duke of Wellington went to the Levee on Wednesday, to present his youngest son, Lord Charles Wel lesley, on his promotion to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy unattached. Lord Charles arrived at Apsley House a few days since from Corfu. Dr. James Mitchell, F.G.S. and Vice-President of the Spitalfields Literary and Scientific Institution, has been appointed one of the Assistant Commissioners to the Commis sion for inquiring into the condition of the hand-loom weavers. His inquiries, it is understood, are directed chiefly to the con dition of the Spitalfields weavers. Mrs. Knight, formerly Miss Povey, who was a favourite vocalist at Drury-lane Theatre, when sander the management of the late Mr. Elliston, has recently returned from America. We trust that she will appear at the ensuing concert for the benefit of the Choral Fund. A vacancy having taken place in the representation of the borough of Maidstone, by the death of Mr. W. Lewis, Mr. J. M. Fector, late M. P. for Dover, has started for that borough. The Queen has presented the Rev. Henry Owen, M.A., the Chairman of the Hoxne Union, to the Rectory of Haveningharn, in the county of Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Anthony Collett, deceased. THE CORONATION.—I understand that the Co ronation has been fixed for an early day in August. On that interesting occasion twenty or twenty-five Liberal Peers, four or five from Ireland, will be sent to the House of Lords. One of the chief objects of the Tories, in their recent attempt on Downing-street, was to have the naming of the Coronation Peers—another was, to be able to avail themselves of casual ties amongst the Irish Judges, in order to perpetuate Toryism on the Bench in Ireland.—Correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday in the parks, and the environs of the metropolis, for nearly three }ours. Her. Majesty was attended by Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Cavendish, the Earl of Fingall, Earl of Ux bridge, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Buckley, and Mr. Fezard. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. Amongst the company were, the Bishop of London, Earl and Countess of Stanhope, and Lady W. Stanhope, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Cowley, and the Hon. Miss Wellesley, the Master of the Horse, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stanley, and the Hon. W. Fox Strangeways. The following joined the royal circle at dinner on Wednes day at the New Palace :—The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Cleveland, Marquis Douro, Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess of Minto, Earl Howe, Viscount Palmerston, Hon. Capt. George Campbell, R. N., and Sir Benjamin Stephenson. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attended at the Palace last evening during dinner, and also on Wed nesday evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday, in a carriage-and-four. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party on Wednesday, at Cambridge House. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Arch bishop of York, Earl of Cawdor, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Viscount Emlyn, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe , Lord Burghersh, Lady Caroline Legge, General Upton, Mr. and Mrs. Planta, Miss Vernon Harcourt, Mr. Berkeley Paget, Mr. liammersley, and Colonel Jones. Their Royal High nesses, accompanied by their guests, afterwards went to the Concert of Ancient Music. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign office. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Vis count Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobliouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Vis count Hovvick. The Council sat an hour. A deputation, including Dr. M'Leod, Mr. Buchannan, and Mr. Collins, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yes terday, in Downing-street. The Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colo nial Office. Mr. Fitzstephen French had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Sir Thomas Lethbridge visited the Noble Viscount on Wednesday. Despatches from Canada were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial Office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There arc this week large arrivals of both Grain And flour, The its value. trade is slacker to-day, at Monday's terms. Barl e y maintains value. Beans and Peas arc unvaried from the beginning of the week. There has not been much done in Oats to-day, and Monday's rates are hardly maintained. Flour is very dull sale, at the late advance.. ARRIVALS. Onto. FlOlti t,l4'lgrs. 12,(Y7Oxsc /i0 9,650 I Wh ext. Barley. English Irish — Foreign — SMITHFIELD. A rather better supply to-day than last Friday. There w as not (lii" such a brisk business as on Monday—prices varied nothing of a" ) ; moment from Monday. Veal is scarce and dear. The arrivals 19. Irish Pigs have been small during the week. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sc i, ! Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Lamb, 6 s. Ed. to 7 s. 4 d. ; Veal, s s. to OLci Pork, 4s. to Is. ; Irish, 3 1 . B d. to 4 s. ; Beasts, 190 ; Sheep A" Lambs, 2,496 ; Calves, 86 ; Pigs, 371. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Prices to-clay reasonable, the supply good, and trade brisk. 1%0' 4 ' 4s. to 206. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair, for large; Cod, Is. and g s • to 4s. for very Slue ; Salmon, 2s. 6d. per lb.; Lobsters continue very dear'and much as quoted yesterday. HOP AND SEE) MARKET. were There was a dulness to-day in the Seed market, and quotations I, much as on Monday. A steady demand continues for Hops at ID" about former rates. PROVISION MARKET. This market is flat generally. The stacks are heavy for the most pa rty and prices, when we went to press, were unvaried. TALLO W MA RK ET. eery Most of the business doing in P.Y.C. Tallow is for consumpti on 3 outports. The price today on the spot is 575. 6d., and for del" 475. 6d. MEAL MARKET. There is a very extensive business doing in B r itish Metals of all kjudo', and prices are looking up for Iron, Copper, Lead, and Tin. DYE MARKET. Logwnod is in good demand, and prices are looking UP• i,ac kinds are quiet. but firm. Indigo is declining ; Cochineal is ' lll • • Dye is flat, but not lower. CANADIAN PRODUCARKE c both Ashes are higher by Is. per Turpentine and T. Tim b er ar firmer than they were, owing to the intelligence of yesterday _ COLONIAL MARKETS. 'merchandise The primary commodities in this groat department of —0, id must be regarded as still declining in value. The market is lifei.6 operations continue limited to the pressing necessities or buy eri ting to day we had large sales of Mauritius and Bengal Sugar, :m l° l nn sold 15,000 bags of the former and 8,200 of the latter ; pa rt a nd indeed, no large sales of any kind can now be accoMplisu the prices, where altered, are again lower ; and indeed, during whole week, th• value of all kinds of raw and refined to Sugar, except foreign, has been on the decline. It i s difficult s 33r the precise decline, but in some kind s It h as been rather eonsl, derable. Buyings in have been frequent through the week. B .o* Sugar sells languidly, and like every other kind of Sugar, except Foreign, declines in worth. Coffee of all kinds, both our own and Fo reign, is declining. To-day, we have no public sales of this comm odity. Tea, is quiet but firm, and that too in the face of the approach in g sale. : Rice is easier, and so is Indigo. Indeed, with the exceptio n of SPice' and Ruin, all commodities, in the market, are either lower , or inclined t° be so. The imports, to-day, are slender. The principal sales advertised for next week of Colonial produce at present, are those of 'Wool. LIVERK ET, ARCI( 13. An extensive bu P siness OOLCOTTON was effected MAß at our Mark Met this day, th e 'c : l l :is amounting to fully 4,0(30 bags, for which the quotations reports tot our last were realized. We close with every appearance of the Ilte3 un steadiness :-2,Boo;American, .54`-d.; Bd . (200 for export); 10 0 r ipo ham, Sid., ,id.; 200 Surat, 4 30.,250 Laguayra, Pernam,9d., W.; 150 Bahia, 70., Sid.; 400 Egyptian, B+a" - —Total, 4,000. The Master of the Horse's dinner on Satu he given to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and George, arid the Duchess Countess of Sutherland. , n-ijext Her Majesty's Theatre will not be openea Saturday as was expected, in consequence of the arrangelliper, at the Italian Opera at Paris not permitting Mada me to siani's departure at the time agreed upon, but we are haPPY the say that the theatre will positively open on Saturday,Lon, 24th. The engagement of Madame Persiani is now in 'd a y Me don, and she with Mr. Laporte arc to leave Paris on ° ol next. We understand that Persiani was willing to si"g Thursday next, in order that the patrons of the 0pr60,1 nO .. London should no longer be disappointed, but them a,n7c. rnent considered it but justice to give her one or two day he r pose, and on Saturday, the 24th, is definitively fixed fll tra 4 appearance. The Opera will then commence, which we iloW will prove a most brilliant season. Grisi will soon 'e Persiani, and Albertazzi, as speedily as her present o'st. teresting state of health permits, will be also at her r fo r We shall have Tamburini and Lablacho, and Rubini we 0 , for the last time. In short, the season promises west 3 piciously. An ° THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL 44 0I1 r ai , - - 1( BOITND."-It is acknowledged that the author of " r a c j a i rd the Reefer" has taken a high position among our starlarti. novelists—in some respects the very highest, in his own P not cular department, the naval novel ; for though lie MaY t i t e equal all others in humour, variety, and richness of genius, he undoubtedly surpasses every other naval wri te re y force of style, richness of descriptive power, and a c ertain using strength of imagination that give to his pictures of s r c e I;fe a mingled force and brilliance. The public, th erc ,. fi f° et; will, we are sure, hail with much satisfaction the rt9Pe a ' - i ' efl of his new story, which we observe is to be published IL' ti days. Of WHITE CONDUIT CONCERTS.--.The sevcri.) jo a the weather for so long a period during the present winte r . ati operated rather unfavourably to the interests of the sPir'bot proprietor of this much frequented place of amusemen t J on es some of the benefits have been good. That of Mr. T t ended, on Monday night was numerously and respectll3lY S t g toll and the entertainments were excellent. The linr A rin o rao family, consisting of five sisters and a br o ther, executf - (fro° concerted music in good style; and the Boleno fam"Y tie the St. James's Theatre and the Colosseum) perform e . o nist , rious astonishing feats of agility. Mons. Buck, theill eye. displayed his usual dexterity in the art of deceiving We particularly noticed a capital duet, called " Mr. a nt i t w as Touehwood," sung by T. Jones and Miss Harrington. under warmly and deservedly applauded. The season , we ,last stand, closes this week until Easter, and this evening (t"-eivil night but one) Mr. H. Hilton, the money-taker , wilege„;oca and obliging demeanor in his useful avocations has vI be him many well wishers, takes his benefit. We tru st it a most auccessful one, for such he deserves. ,i n co C. h i Th e NEW FLAT GOLD WAT -- ; vertical are offered in double-bottomed engine-turned eases, ed hori movements, for Seven Guinea s each, or, with highly-j n ' s l as each: zontal movements, jewelled and warranted, at Nine Ouirie.,,, and at. T. COX SAVORY'S, Worki ng G o ld s mith, Silversto,;ace. Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, L on d on (S even Doors from 17 church-street). e d f°t N.B.—The horizontal construction is strongly recommend its superior accuracy. On the 13th inst., at 13renThill ARR . , Wilts by the Rev. Walter 0f MIED' Rector of Call owes , in the same county, Willi a m, eldest SO " J u lia, b go Rev. Giles Haworth Peel, of Avon Cliff, Warwickshire, t° only (laughter of William Whitrash, Esq , of Stanley , On the 14th inst., Arthur Saltmarshe; Esq., of Corbet-c,°utrieral Caroline Anne, (laughter of A. Oswald, Esq ,and nieco of " se ' Sir John Oswald, 0. C. 8., of Dunnikier, Fifeshire- _____—/--. ___ DIED. On the 13th inst., at Dover, Emily Dorothea, the only d aughter of S. M. Latham, Esq., aged 8 years. S i ' On the 10th inst., at Burnfoot, the residence of her brother, tot , Pultency Malcolm, Mrs. 13rigwidow of John B' . g` Es q l.4° gs, scllor-at-law. r 011 41 ' On the 14th inst., at Southend, Kent, Ann, relict °• Michell, aged 73. (i 1.4 . , f On the 10th inst., the Rev. Dr. T. A. Trenchant, p•—• Trinity Colle ,, c, Oxford, end Stanton House, Wilts. Wilts. t, to On the Bth inst., John Lucas, of Harp-lane, Tower-street. Lime. ' No. n Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count! of Middlesex.—Friday, March 16, 1838. otlic r r - ", RT 4, 0.'. • 4 r 1 t :/ ; 1 4 "T r Ai 4 i1g04 ,. ;41,Ar 1 % Z ir v S i g .9ll ll4. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED.